The series Human-Oyster Mutualism presents a hand-painted depiction of the ecosystem services that oysters provide. Mapping the Cost of Land Lost portrays a set of movable wooden letters with price tags as a data-based representation of land loss and gain in Louisiana.
This piece references the 1995 essay of the same title by William Cronon: The Trouble with Wilderness. In the essay, Cronon deconstructs the concept of some wild, pristine Garden of Eden that exists separately from humankind. In reality, every inch of the earth has been shaped or affected by human civilization, and even in industrialized life we remain fundamentally connected to nature.
